News Comment/COMENTARI AL DIA

Herr Wert’s Spanish-Only Culture/HERR WERT ESPANYOLITZA LA CULTURA

Herr Wert’s Spanish-Only Culture

The worth (Wert in German) of Herr Wert: Goebbels in his heart. Below: Catalan president Mas (left) and Trias (right) as Herr Wert wants to see them. The Barcelona mayor replies: “Stop discriminating Catalonia.”

The Spanish nationalist minister for ”education” and “culture” Herr Wert discriminates openly Catalans, who get 16 times less from his “culture” budget than Madrid. He does not want to spend anything making Catalonia Spanish because everything is taken by Madrid. As his predecessor Goebbels said: “When I hear the word culture I reach for my revolver.”

Just three Madrid centres receive already 9 times more than the entire city of Barcelona for culture. Herr Wert will subsidise Madrid in 2013 with €23 per person and Catalonia with €1.47 per person. A Catalan is worth 16 times less than a Spaniard.